January 8, 1493: Day of the Week
January 8, 1493 was the 8th day of the year 1493 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 357 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.
The day of the week for January 8, 1493 under the old Julian calendar was Tuesday. Did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
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Here’s the January 1493 Gregorian calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly 1493 calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Capricorn is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
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January 8, 1493 by the Numbers
- 194,414 days since January 8, 1493
- 532 years, 3 months, and 15 days ago
- 6,387 months since then
- January 8 is in the 1st week of the year 1493 (ISO 8601)
- 27,773 weeks ago
- The year 1493 is not a leap year
Gregorian versus the old Julian calendar
A note to students, teachers, scholars and anyone else passionate about this topic. As stated in the front page, this website is using the Gregorian calendar as the basis for all “day of the week” computation whether or not the Gregorian calendar is relevant for the date in question (January 8, 1493). Educators should point out the primary reason why Pope Gregory XIII introduced a new calendar system in October 1582. That is, to make the computation for the annual date of Easter more accurate since it is the foundation of the Christian faith.
Even with that purpose in mind, the Gregorian calendar too will become out of sync. It has a known approximation error of about one day for every 7,700 years assuming a constant time interval between vernal equinoxes (which is not true). This is better compared to the one day for every 128 years error of the Julian calendar.
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